The Silent Voice in Education: The Importance of Involving Classroom Teachers

by Vincent B. Troiano

Overview

The education establishment in America must move to a better recognition of the value of classroom teacher evaluation of the education structure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475848441
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/27/2018
Pages:	130
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Vincent B. Troiano taught for the Old Bridge Township School System for 36 years: grades 4-6 for 9 years and Special Education for 27 years. His special education teaching career began in self-contained classes working with students identified as Emotionally Disturbed. Concentrating on learning disabilities was an outgrowth of that experience.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: The 1960s and “Change”

Chapter 2: A Two-Tiered System

Chapter 3: Local Leadership

Chapter 4: Classroom Teachers React to the Times

Chapter 5: Special Education: Basis and Reform

Chapter 6: Classroom Management in Special Education

Chapter 7: Education Establishment System Failure

Chapter 8: Teacher-initiated Change that has Stood the Test of Time

Chapter 9: Poor Leadership in Real Time

Chapter 10: Special Education as a Bureaucracy

Chapter 11: IEP as Legal Document vs Classroom Teacher Day to Day Evaluations

Chapter 12: The Teacher as Facilitator vs Goals and Objectives

Chapter 13: Local Control of Education: A Beginning

Chapter 14: Individual Instruction

Epilogue: The Classroom Teacher

Editorial Reviews

What’s most important is this book is written by a teacher! A very good analysis of turbulent and troubling times in the search for excellence in public education. A rude awakening to the current struggle to reform public schools.

Allen McQuarrie